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By Phillip Blond,Philip Blond

From Nietzsche to the current, the Western philosophical culture has been ruled by means of an earthly pondering that has brushed off dialogue of God as mostly inappropriate. in recent times even though, the difficulty of theology has lower back to spark essentially the most debatable debates inside modern philosophy. Discussions of theology through key modern philosophers akin to Derrida and Levinas have put faith at centre stage.
Post-Secular Philosophy is among the first volumes to think about how God has been approached by way of glossy philosophers and think about the hyperlinks among theology and postmodern idea. Fifteen available essays current a transparent and compelling photograph of the way key thinkers together with Descartes, Nietzsche, Freud, Wittgenstein, Heidegger and Derrida have made God a significant a part of their considering. every one thinker and the way they've got approached and criticised theology is put in a transparent historic context.
Placing the gathering in context with Phillip Blond's notable advent, Post-Secular Philosophy offers a desirable dialogue of the choices to the relativism and nihilism that dominate Western thinking.

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